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Author:

Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Title:

Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God / Gail Turley Houston.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xi, 181 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women authors, English--19th century.
Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
Goddess religion in literature.
Bront©±, Charlotte,--1816-1855--Criticism and interpretation.
Jameson,--Mrs.--(Anna),--1794-1860--Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,--1806-1861--Criticism and interpretation.
Nightingale, Florence,--1820-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Bront©±'s vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.

Series:

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

ISBN:

0814293123 (cd)
9780814293126 (cd)
0814212107 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212103 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)810039752

LCCN:

2012032539

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)